RE: Q's: Animation & GTK Markup Language

[Evan Lawrence <evan worldpath net>]

Totally agreed - I'm not sure how advanced the "themes" that raster's working
on are, but if support for animations should go anywhere, it would be there.
That way, it's completely up to the user whether they have animations or not.

On 09-Apr-98 Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Phil Dawes wrote:
> 
>> 2) I've noticed that the new windoze gui controls are becoming more
>> 'animated' (seems to be since IE4 and the active-desktop patches). Key
>> examples are the html scrolling (which glides smoothly (50fps) in
>> blocks) and the tree control which 'falls' open as if under the
>> influence of
>> gravity. Is there any base-class support for this kind of widget-level
>> animation in gtk? Perhaps it could be hacked using timeout signals
>> etc..?
> 
> If anyone adds animation to either the base-class or their program, please
> allow the user to disable it (especially base-class).  I won't argue the
> asthetics of it, since I don't have much in the way of asthetics, but from
> a purely functional point of view, it's just eye candy, and I'd rather
> spend my CPU time on other things.
> 
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